CoLab and ZON launch Intensive Script Development Lab

12 Feb 2010

The ZON intensive Script Development Lab at UT Austin will offer advanced training in film scriptwriting, direction and production for ten students from Portuguese universities.

The program will be open to students from a few selected universities that have been associated with this project (University of Aveiro, University of Beira Interior, Catholic University of Porto, University Lusófona, University of Minho, New University of Lisbon and University of Porto).

The goal of the lab is to educate film students in a multicultural environment, allowing them to have access to specialized and work-oriented teaching methods. Studies will take place in the US and in Portugal during the summer of 2010 and includes paid travel, room and board. The ten finalists will be chosen based on a short story synopsis that they will submit.

For two months, the students will develop their scripts at UT Austin, supervised by renowned professors including Richard Lewis and Stuart Kelban.

Filming and post-production will then be made in Portugal supervised by their respective universities.

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